This plugin will use Net::Twitter with the login and password in your .netrc file to send a release notice to Twitter. By default, it will include a link to your README file as extracted on a fast CPAN mirror. This works very nicely with Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ReadmeFromPod.

The tweet_url is shortened with WWW::Shorten::TinyURL or whichever other service you choose and appended to the tweet message. The following variables are available for substitution in the URL and message templates: